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Stranger Songs
Tuesday September 6th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History

The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs – with our broadcast falling on the day after Labour Day – is Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Bread and Roses
Judy Collins - Bread and Roses - Elektra
Winnipeg 1919
Joe Jencks - The Coming of the Years - Turtle Bear Music New
Pie in the Sky
Windborne - Of Hard Times & Harmony - Wand’ring Feet New
Down on the Picket Line
Sue Massek - Precious Memories: An Original Play by Si Kahn - Strictly Country
Which Side are You On?
Magpie - When We Stand Together - Longtail
Solidarity Forever
Sue Jeffers - Up with the Masses - FB!
Cold Missouri Waters
James Keelaghan - History: The First 25 Years - Borealis Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Schoolday's Over
The Short Sisters - A Little Gracefulness - Black Socks Press
In Tall Buildings
John Hartford - Essential Recordings: Good’le Days - Rounder
Work
John McCutcheon - Leap! - Appalsongs New
All Used Up
Utah Phillips - The Long Memory - Red House
Night Nurse
Shelley Posen - Ontario Moon - Well Done Music Canadian
Mrs. Linda
Nancy White - Unexpected - Borealis Canadian
Sewing Machines
Grit Laskin - Unabashedly Folk - Borealis Canadian
Speed Up
Maria Dunn - Piece By Piece - Distant Whisper Canadian
Millworker
Priscilla Herdman - Forgotten Dreams - Flying Fish
Working Poor
David Francey - Torn Screen Door - Laker Music Canadian
Workin’ for Wages
James Talley - Nashville City Blues - Cimarron
Aragon Mill
Rosalie Sorrels - The Long Memory - Red House
U.S. Steel
Tom Russell - Old Songs Yet to Sing - Frontera
Unemployment Blues
Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go - M.C.
Put Your Toolbox Down
Kat Goldman - The Workingman’s Blues - Kat Goldman Canadian
Hymn to Friday
Oscar Brown, Jr. - The Voice of Cool - Not Now Music
Working Joe
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis Canadian
Joe Hill
Leon Bibb - Praising Peace: A tribute to Paul Robeson - Stony Plain Canadian
Interactive CKCU
PeterB
Great show! HIGHLY appropriate. You just mentioned nursing, other front-line implied (I would add cleaning, orderlies, blood-work, physio, social workers etc etc) And YES Ottawa Heart Institute is 'The A Team' top to bottom. Been there done that.

4:21 PM, September 6th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Peter B. I second everything you mention.

4:31 PM, September 6th, 2022
Alex Stewart As always,Mike, your choixce of music is perfect.
As always, Mike, your choice of muasic is impeccable. Thanks!

1:12 PM, September 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Alex.

10:40 PM, September 11th, 2022